With more and more youth using social networks, whose job is it to keep them safe on the internet?

1. Whose Job is it?
Youth Privacy in a
Digital
World
Mark Godin

2. The minimum required age to join Facebook is 13
image FindYourSearch

3. However, nearly half of all teenagers admit to
lying about their age online to gain access to
a website
-­‐
Kevin
Makice
–
Coming
of
Age
in
the
Digital
Age
image PictureYouth

4. 5 million Facebook users
are age 10 or under
Consumer
Reports
Magazine
June
2011:
image Daniel Horacia Agostini

5. At a time when stories
of cyber-bullying
make national news image Luc De Leeuw

6. Whose job is it to keep youth
safe?
image M.G. Kafkas

7. Leah Parsons, mother of Rehtaeh Parsons
CBC News
“[Rehtaeh] was never left
alone… boys she didn’t
know started texting her
and Facebooking asking
her to have sex with
them… It just never
stopped”
image Darren Hester

8. Bullying has always been a problem,
with 160 000 students skipping school annually
to escape harassment
image Scott Robinson
- e! Science News

9. But never before has it
been so easy to reach out and
attack someone through social media
image Zoriah

10. Online harassment usually occurs
between friends or former friends
image Bùi Linh Ngân
- e! Science News

11. People close enough to know how to harm them
image Mark Godin

12. Every social media platform has tools
to help, and networks are under
constant pressure to improve them
image Facebook (screen capture)

13. But privacy tools are only
as effective as the end user
Image ~ Pil ~

14. graphic: Bob Al-Green, Mashable

15. And with new tools such as Facebook
Graph Search, privacy tools are
more important than ever
image Pulpolux !!!

16. There is no way to force users to follow the
rules. Facebook admits there is no way to
stop young users from using the service
- Mark Sweney, The Gaurdian
image Cycrolu

17. “I don’t think that it’s appropriate
to focus on age at all.”
-Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd
image Mark Godin

18. The world of social media is
dangerous and scary, just
like the real world
image Remco Wighman

19. It is important for
parents to
support and care
for their children
in this dangerous
environment… image Piero Sierra

20. but preventing them from exploring it
is not the answer.
image Lon Martin

21. Just as in the physical world, it is
everyone’s job to keep youth safe.
image Denise Chan

22. All images from Flickr licensed under
Creative Commons non-commercial
share-alike 3.0 agreement
Cover image Mark Godin

23. Sources
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2013/02/coming-of-age-in-the-digital-age
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2011/june/electronics-
computers/state-of-the-net/facebook-concerns/index.htm
http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/01/20/facebook-graph-search-is-a-
disruptive-minefield-of-unintended-consequences/
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/01/20/
from.bullying.relationships.mapping.our.online.communications
https://www.facebook.com/safety
http://mashable.com/2013/04/30/facebook-graph-search-privacy-infographic/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/23/facebook-admits-powerless-
young-users
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2013/04/09/ns-rehtaeh-parsons-
suicide-rape.html